Emotion recognition from speech using extended feature selection and a simple classifier

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2043-2046

  Hassan, Ali ^a   Damper, Robert I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Feature fusion; Feature selection; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; EMOTION RECOGNITION; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; FEATURE FUSION; FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURE SETS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RECOGNITION OF EMOTION; SEQUENTIAL SELECTION;

CLASSIFIERS; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450201936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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